It’s funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won’t catch on because “federation is too hard to understand” when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 hours ago

    Google buying Dejanews, the largest archive of all messages, and merging it with the travesty that was (and still is) Google Groups just about killed the whole thing.

    Well that and the fact that it was unmoderated which eventually led to it being populated almost exclusively with mentally ill troll savants. USENET by the end was the digital equivalent of a horror zoo of abused monkeys slinging shit all over everyone and themselves.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      unmoderated

      Fun fact: that’s not strictly true.

      You could have moderated groups, where a moderator/group of moderators would get sent every post via email, and they’d only be posted into the group if approved.

      The vast, vast, vast majority of groups were not moderated, but that’s not to say you couldn’t do so.

      • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Yes pardon me I left off the word “largely” before “unmoderated.” We all knew it was possible, but it didn’t matter because, as you point out - nobody really did.